How about a Peak District ride?

[Martin C]

Originally Posted by Moco1961

, after the dissappointment of cancelling this mornings North West meet due to weather, I dared to look at the forcast for Longnor next Sunday " light rain with moderate wind", right now I will take that! The week ahead seems to be littered with thunderstorms,Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday but improving, keep,us posted Martin. It's usually a thumbs up from us when the chance of rain is 20 % or less.........currently in the North West it's 90%

The forecast is currently bad for Sunday, but i'll keep a close eye on it and update here later in the week. However, the forecast for Saturday is currently good, and if anyone wants to switch to that date I could do that instead.

Fingers crossed! (UK weather is why I like riding in Spain & Portugal when possible!)

[Martin C]

Hopefully the weather forecast for Sunday will improve, but if it doesn’t and Saturday’s forecast stays OK, does anyone want to switch to Saturday instead?

[ChrisC2925]

Originally Posted by Martin C

Hopefully the weather forecast for Sunday will improve, but if it doesn’t and Saturday’s forecast stays OK, does anyone want to switch to Saturday instead?

Hi Martin

Saturday is out for me, I've got an appointment at 11:30

Chris

[Mr Gazza]

MOT for me Saturday morning.

sorry Martin, I cant do this Saturday either. To be fair the BBC weather website gives less than 25% rain up until 15:00 at Longnor....dont know about anyone else but thats just on our limit for going for it

[Martin C]

My iPhone’s weather app is usually pretty good, so I’ll see what it says tomorrow (Friday) morning and decide then. I really don’t want to do this run on wet roads, because there is likely to be quite a bit of gravel that has been recently washed into the road and pushed by 4 wheeled traffic precisely into my preferred riding lines!

[slob]

you’ll miss it by about three miles as you come over chinley head, stockport might me under water if the dam lets go though

[Mr Gazza]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews...4BZ?ocid=ientp

That's truly frightening! They're not exaggerating. The way dams fail is by washing out the back, exactly as this one is doing. Not stopping the rubber neckers standing underneath to film it on their portable telephones though!!! Doh!

[Martin C]

Originally Posted by slob

you’ll miss it by about three miles as you come over chinley head, stockport might me under water if the dam lets go though

As Slob says, my route south from the Woodhead Pass goes somewhat east of Whaley Bridge to Chapel-en-le Frith - where I believe most of the evacuees from Whaley Bridge are being temporarily (I hope) located.

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by Martin C

My iPhone’s weather app is usually pretty good, so I’ll see what it says tomorrow (Friday) morning and decide then. I really don’t want to do this run on wet roads, because there is likely to be quite a bit of gravel that has been recently washed into the road and pushed by 4 wheeled traffic precisely into my preferred riding lines!

If the roads are wet, takes the fun out of the day.

Originally Posted by Moco1961

Thats a sensible shout Martin, if we have to re boot then thats what we will have to do...I notice there is a Dam on the edge of the Peak district which is damaged as a result of the recent heavy rain and they are thinking of evacuating Whaley Bridge.....is that on your route !!

I agree, a re schedule may be a better shout, especially as the met are saying another heat wave could be on the way.

[Martin C]

POSTPONED: my latest weather forecasts for this Sunday are all saying some rain, so as far as I’m concerned this run has to be postponed, regrettably.
However, for this Saturday the forecasts are all saying dry (but cloudy), so if that continues to be the case then I’m happy to go on Saturday by myself - if anyone wishes to join me, give me a call anytime today on 07768-941222.

..............forecast has got worse actually, thundery showers now on sunday !

[Mr Gazza]

Sorry you had to do this Martin, but it is for the best and to be honest I'm quite relieved.

Don't let this put you off organising runs and events for the club even if sometimes it doesn't work out as planned. Everyone will understand.

September would be a good time to look at this run again?

[Martin C]

Originally Posted by Mr Gazza

Sorry you had to do this Martin, but it is for the best and to be honest I'm quite relieved.

Don't let this put you off organising runs and events for the club even if sometimes it doesn't work out as planned. Everyone will understand.

September would be a good time to look at this run again?

Thanks, and it hasn’t put me off - I’ll be doing it on Saturday by myself quite happily. I realise that many of you have more commitments and demands on your time than I do, so no problem at all.
Mind you, I’ve just spent 2 hours in my courtyard replacing the Monster’s found-to-be-jammed-and-leaking rear tyre valve assembly (I keep spares), using an old truck valve-spring compressor with fiddly blocks of wood in order to - eventually - break the tyre bead in-situ and thus get to the blasted thing, without removing the wheel.🙂 Fortunately, I can still remember how to do this sort of unexpected last-minute stuff! The downside of that tedious task being necessary is that I was then unable to simultaneously sunbathe and do my VAT return.☹️

[Grumpy]

Probably the best decision Martin.
I'm still interested, so have a ponder on some dates.